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You mentioned that high gas fees are normal. I'm a normie coming into crypto, so my thoughts on this are different. The second I saw the gas fees I decided not to do any withdrawal/moving of ETH or any ETH-20 based coin. Non-starter.
if you are new to crypto, than you missed the train for ETH L1 usage, it was a thing of the past, and L1 is now for institutions, big players and L2 settlements
new people in crypto should try to use L2 or alternative L1 networks, if Ethereum is too expensive at the moment, then the amount of your investment does not need security level that Ethereum networks provides